How is cholesterol good for you and your body?

Question

Explain the benefits of cholesterol for the body and its functions. How does it affect joints and organs?

Answer 1

Americans are being saturated with anti-cholesterol propaganda. If you watch very much television, you're probably one of the millions of Americans who now has a terminal case of cholesterol phobia. The probaganda is relentless and is often designed to produce fear and loathing of this works of all food contaminants. You never hear the food propagandists bragging about their product being fluoride free or aluminum free, two of our truly serious food-addidtive problems. But cholesterol, an essential nutrient not proven to be harmfull in ANY quantity is constantly pilloried as a menance to your health. If you don't use corn oil, Fleishmann's margarine and Egg Beaters, you are going straight to atherosclerosis hell with stroke, heart attack and premature aging and so are your kids.

William Campbell Douglass, MD
Eat Your Cholesterol

Answer 2

You could not live without cholesterol. It is present in every cell in the body. One of the most important roles of cholesterol is in lipid transport. As you know most of the body's reactions take place in a liquid medium, yet many of the compounds are water insoluble. Cholesterol acts as a surfactant and forms a thin film around the insoluble compound making it accessible to the reactive site. People need to realign their thinking about cholesterol and start thinking what is wrong with the way that we are misusing our diets.

Answer 3

Cholesterol is a chemical building block for many hormones. Cholesterol is produced in the liver and is also obtained from diet.

Answer 4

We use cholesterol to make many hormones in the body. The hormones are chemical messengers from the glands to many of the body cells and they tell our cells what proteins to make.

If we had NO cholesterol we couldn't grow and we couldn't develop as male and female

Our more recent concern is the reverse problem where people have too MUCH cholesterol and it causes disease in the arteries.

Answer 5

Your body weight, fat levels and cholesterol are largely determined by your diet. For fat loss, anaerobic exercise is ideal. That is, weight training and HIIT. Traditional cardio is not ideal as it does nothing for your metabolism and at increases your efficiency and makes you lose less fat over time.

Answer 6

Bad cholesterol clogs your arteries, so good cholesterol, must not affect it, or unclogs it.

Answer 7

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